I’m Simon Pritchard, a keen mountain biker from South Wales in the UK. I’ve three children, a 20yr old son, a 6yr old son and a 5yr old daughter. About 10 months ago I went through a painful break up from the Mum of the 2 youngest. The only redeeming feature of this break-up was the loss of about 14 kilo's and the subsequent increase in fitness. This year has been pretty hard, i'd never been hurt before really and keeping it together hasn't always been easy. The kids are fantastic though and i've met somebody special with two great kids of her own and slowly, in a complicated and messy way, things are getting better.
Exercise wise it's been a good year, the bike has helped keep me sane and the two big events I did went as well as i could have hoped. In between the biking, a close friend decided to enter an ironman and sparked a little interest in swimming and running. Swimming was fantastic, but not the easiest to fit into what is a busy routine, but for the first time in my adult life, running was easy and fun. The only problem though was it was a little too much fun and I hurt myself with some badly thought out rookie runs.
So now, three months later my knee seems a lot better just as i've has a MRI scan for the original injury so the plan is to ramp up the mileage and have some fun. I know 30 miles in 8 weeks seems a bit stupid but the plan is for the increase to be much more gradual than last time and the mileage to be nearly all off road to avoid bashing the hell out of my knee on asphalt.
This week has been an easy start, have only managed a couple of runs (4 and 2 miles) and a very tame MTB ride. Well, the exercise element was tame, the technical side scared the life out of me, but scared is good. :o)
Weekend plannage involves a couple of nice nights with the little creatures and then a walk and run on Sunday. Am feeling something between 10 and 14 miles would be fun so i'll see how brave i feel.
This will get better i promise. :o)
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